shasta

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[–] shasta@lemm.ee 1 points 5 hours ago

Is this supposed to imply causation? That part doesn't make sense

[–] shasta@lemm.ee 4 points 16 hours ago

It's so you can participate in primary elections for that party. Some people who vote Dem in the general election will sometimes register as Republican so that they can vote for spoiler candidates in the Republican primary. There's not enough people doing it for that plan to really have any impact though.

But the same logic applies if you are trying to hide your votes from nosy family. Family members have enough info on you to be able to look up your party registration so if you are afraid of them causing drama, you can register as whatever party the rest of your family is registered as and then vote for the other side in the general election. The actual votes you cast cannot be traced back to you... Which can raise other concerns like not being able to verify if your vote actually counted.

[–] shasta@lemm.ee 1 points 1 day ago

Why use more word when few word do trick?

[–] shasta@lemm.ee 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The visitor in the comic is obviously fake because everyone knows they don't wear cowboy hats in Kokomo for safety reasons

[–] shasta@lemm.ee 8 points 1 day ago (2 children)

They should've run Walz for president. Probably would've won

[–] shasta@lemm.ee 10 points 1 day ago

Damn those antifa fascists

[–] shasta@lemm.ee 40 points 1 day ago

The problem with that strategy is that moderate Republicans don't watch the news. They believe that all other Republicans are just like them and hold all the same beliefs, because all their friends are in the same echo chamber. So then they believe all Republican politicians are the same way. They intentionally don't pay attention to the news because it is full of sensationalism and depressing things they can't personally control like terrorism and mass shootings. They still believe it's important to vote, because that's the patriotic thing to do, and they can just fill the bubbles next to every name marked REP and not have to worry about doing research and learning facts. It's just the easy way and they've lived their whole lives doing things the easy way because of white privilege and generational wealth, but any low points in their lives they will consider to be "hardship" so they "know" that anyone living in poverty is just not trying hard enough, because they personally made it through that "struggle" with barely more than the average effort they usually contribute to anything.

How do I know this? I was raised in a family that is exactly how I described here. The only reason I'm not just like them is that I went to public school and made friends with kids who did not come from the same background. It took about 17 years to finally see all the flawed logic and head-in-sandness before finally breaking free and forging my own path based on my own beliefs.

[–] shasta@lemm.ee 5 points 1 day ago

Can we see the time scale greater than 2 days?

[–] shasta@lemm.ee 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Sugar in many products such as yogurt is not very useful and just added for flavor. In pasta sauce though, the sugar is added in order to cut the acidity. No one buys pasta sauce for its sweetness.

[–] shasta@lemm.ee 7 points 3 days ago (1 children)

They're referring to relationships between 3 people

[–] shasta@lemm.ee 1 points 3 days ago

Who is stealing all the nuts?

[–] shasta@lemm.ee 36 points 3 days ago (1 children)

That's ki, not fire. 🤓

 

On other apps, when an image or video is posted I can long press on it to copy a direct link to it. The best I could find in Voyager is to copy a link to the lemmy post or open the post in a browser. This makes it hard for me to share memes with friends who don't use Lemmy. But maybe this feature already exists and I don't know where to find it. I just started using Voyager yesterday.

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